Kuroshitsuji is consistently one of the most popular manga, generally selling 500 - 600,000 copies per volume. Nana and Nodame Cantobile both sell more then a million copies per volume from magazines with, at best, moderate circulation. St. Young Men sells about the same as Kuroshitsuji from a far lower circulation magazine. It's not that unusual for a magazine with 100 - 200,000 (or less) readers to produce a hit. It's not like magazines and anime are the only way to expose an audience to a series.

July 27, 2009, 11:17 PM

kewl0210

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Sales are kinda low because about every Jump series comes out next week. Except Gintama and One Piece.

Well, having an anime airing will do that for you. It seems like the release of the new log gave One Piece a nice sales boost, too. That volume has been out for a while now.

Hayate and Cross Game are still behind their previous volumes, but they're doing a good job picking up sales.

August 06, 2009, 12:34 AM

Kaiten

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Not all anime are equal. It says a lot about Pandora Hearts that it gave such a big bump. Especially considering the anime industry is hemorrhaging money.

August 06, 2009, 03:44 AM

Koshi_Inaba

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

well, Pandora Hearts anime is popular and praise for it's story and art so I'm not that surprise, same thing happened to Kuroshitsuji, even bigger for Kuroshitsuji, pushing from 200k-300k to 500k - 600k.
Can't wait for next week ranking, I hope Toriko and Mago break 100k from first week. I expect big things from those two, I hope the anime can push the sales to 300k-400k.

Mago almost sold as much as To Love. With sells like that, it will hopefully stick around for a long time :D

August 12, 2009, 06:36 PM

Koshi_Inaba

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

A really good week. Although, I'm baffled with Shin POT's sales. It is of lesser quality than the original POT. The fanbase still strong I guess. I'm very saddened by Eyeshield, it usually break the 200k in the first week. Ever since the Teikoku arc, it couldn't. It's this faltering sales that caused it to get canned.
Mago's profile will increased with the drama CD and Fukuyama Jun attached.

August 12, 2009, 06:56 PM

KuwabaraTheMan

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

I'm glad that New Prince of Tennis got off to a strong start sales wise. I hope it continues to be successful so the series can keep going for a long time.

Neuro also saw a sales increase for the final volume.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drmke

Mago almost sold as much as To Love. With sells like that, it will hopefully stick around for a long time :D

Well, accounting for the bundle edition, To-Love was about 40,000 copies ahead of Mago. There's still a lot of ground there for it to cover.

August 12, 2009, 07:06 PM

Koshi_Inaba

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Those bundle edition are pure bullshit. Tora's only advantage because it has an anime. If it didn't, it would lose to Mago and Toriko

August 12, 2009, 07:09 PM

KuwabaraTheMan

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Quote:

Originally Posted by Koshi_Inaba

Those bundle edition are pure bullshit. Tora's only advantage because it has an anime. If it didn't, it would lose to Mago and Toriko

They're still legitimate sales of the volume. The fact remains that To-Love-Ru sold more volumes than Toriko.

I'm sure Naruto and Bleach would sell less copies than they currently do if they didn't have anime. That doesn't make their sales 'pure bullshit'.